S Quotes
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“Some of us see potential in others and may even love it. However, in many instances, the love is unrequited, and the potential remains unrealised.”
“Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.”
Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?
“Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder.”
“Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.”
“Some of us seem to imagine the more respectable a person is, the more reason to attack him”
Source: The Man Who Japed
“Some of us should learn to ask for bold things that require God.”
“Some of us sin way too many times and then feel ashamed to seek forgiveness. Sometimes it even feels like all we did was seek forgiveness after sinning again and again but never abstained from that sin when we got the opportunity to sin. Even in that moment seek forgiveness to Allah. You do not know how Merciful Allah is. You can't comprehend that. So seek forgiveness not because of who u are but because Who Allah is.”
“Some of us still believe there is a Santa Claus...somewhere”
“Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Some of us take death very seriously.” Ms. Udell’s words were icy. She looked at Jeff and Rick in turn; they each stared at their sneakers. “It is a solemn topic, and I hope that you will respect yourselves, your classmates, and life itself by treating it as such.”
Source: Melissa
“Some of us Teachers who consider ourselves to be smarter than our students will realise how worthless we are if we ever enter a classroom and find it devoid of students. Without students we are nobodies.”
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
“Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.”
“Some of us wake up. Others roll over.”
“Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“Some of us want the crown before the cross.”
“Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them.”
Source: Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
“Some of us wear the mask prouder than others.”
“Some of us wear the villain label with pride, because they want to rebel against the norms, because it’s a harder, more rewarding road to travel, or because being a ‘hero’ often means so very little. But few people really want to see themselves as being bad or evil, whatever label they wear. I’ve done things I regret, I’ve done things I’m proud of, and I’ve walked the roads in between. The sliding scale is a fantasy. There’s no simple answers.”
Source: Worm
“Some of us were born to hate and some of us were born to be great.”
“Some of us were born to take risks.”
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“Some Of Us Were Made For War. Jack Hammerson, Arcadian Genesis, 2012.”
“Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.”
Source: The Complete Lumatere Chronicles
“Some of us, white and black, know how great a price has already been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people, an unprecedented nation. If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name.
If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own - which it is - and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”
“Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.”
Source: The White Album
“Some of us will admit to a simple fascination with the inner world for its own sake, a fascination with no further goal than the thrill of discovery, the pleasure of engaging the mysterious, dark ground of our own nature.”
Source: Embrace of the Daimon: Healing through the Subtle Energy Body/ Jungian Psychology & the Dark Feminine
“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”
Source: Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers
“Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.”
“Some of us will never know we'd owned one's heart just like his silence had already spoken a thousand words to me, a sheer roar of his love in the silence of this night..."”
“Some of us will never know we'd owned one's heart just like his silence had already spoken a thousand words to me, a sheer roar of his love in the silence of this night..." ”
― Mysticald/Faiqa - Induratize”
“Some of us will never know we'd owned someone's heart for a season.”
“Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.”
Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
“Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us will be proved right . . .”
“Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...”
“Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.”
“Some of us would take our time, if we knew that we are rushing to our deaths.”
“Some of us write stories, some get stories written about them. The rest of us die unnoticed.”
“Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”
Source: You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
“Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.”
“Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did.”
“Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.”
“Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)
“Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.”
“Some of what makes growing up hard for famous kids is that they don't have room to do immature stuff. I was really happy that I could go to school and hang out behind the alley and be somewhat irresponsible.”
“Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.”
“Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.”
“Some of what we're learning suggests a balance between exposing children to new things, yet giving them a chance to repeatedly experience something they enjoy, which builds "chunks" of information in their brains.”
“Some of y'all are not where you want to be in life, yet you party every weekend. What is it that you’re celebrating?”
“Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!!”